John Offenbach
About
My work focuses on the silver grains from my own archived negatives. The fundamental particles of pre-digital photography, each one less than a micron in diameter, and like a snowflake, unique, no two ever alike. The theme is centred on ageing and memory; remembering, forgetting, and remembering again. In some cases the silver is physically removed from my negatives and transformed into an ink. In other cases my old negatives are viewed under a microscope and scanned to produce granular files which I reuse as layers on new imagery; an episodic inheritance from the past.
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